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Old Apr 24, 2006 | 5:45 pm
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Originally Posted by House
A couple of years ago, a very friendly lady manning a (very busy) immigration counter at FRA checked my (Irish) passport and then started to tell me all about the holiday home her parents had bought in the west of Ireland, before proceeding to ask whether I had any Irish Euro coins on me that I would be interested in trading for German Euro coins. I couldn't help (on my way from Russia to the UK so no Euro coinage in sight) but this is definitely the strangest set of questions I've been asked!
When I went to KBP last year, there was a guy who looked like a school kid manning the passport control. He asked me where I was coming from, when I told him from London, said he has never seen any UK coins or notes and aked me if I had any. He examined the five pound note and few coins I gave him carefully, asked me how much each is worth in Ukranian money, asked if he could keep a one pound coin and 50 p coin to add to his collection
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